How bizarre.
Why would any man in their right mind want to marry 86 women…. unless of course they came with hefty dowries in which case the situation becomes perfectly understandable and down right enviable! What I can’t get my head around is…. how on earth is is he going to choose which four he’s going to keep?
Ummm… I’m going to keep You because you’re the mother of my favourite (of 150 kids) son…. and I’ll keep You around cos I love that lamb and cous cous thing you make… and well… You can stay because you can suck a golf ball through a garden hose… but as for the rest of you lot? Ummm…. think of a number between 1 and 83… :S
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Nigerian man to divorce 82 wives
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A Nigerian religious leader with 86 wives has accepted an Islamic decree ordering him to divorce all but four of them, local authorities say.
A spokesman for the emir of Bida told the BBC that Mohammadu Bello Abubakar, 84, agreed on Saturday to comply with the decree. Last week one of Nigeria’s top Islamic bodies, the Jamatu Nasril Islam, sentenced him to death. The sentence was lifted but he was threatened with eviction from his home.
Mr Bello Abubakar challenged Muslim
scholars two weeks ago
Earlier, Mr Abubakar had challenged Islamic scholars, saying there was no punishment stated in the Koran for having more than four wives. "I have not contravened any established law that would warrant my being banished from the land… There is no law that says one must not marry more than four wives," the AFP news agency reported him as saying.
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"All my wives are with children and some of these are people I have married and stayed with for over 30 years. How can they expect me to leave them within two days?" he reportedly told local newspapers. The former teacher and Islamic preacher lives in Niger State with his wives and at least 170 children.
Niger is one of the Muslim majority states to have reintroduced Sharia punishments since 2000. Several people have been sentenced to death for adultery by Sharia courts but none of these sentences have been carried out.
Many of the wives live three to a room,
some have seven children